C is for cars, cameras, charges, controversy ... and chaos?

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Congestion charging comes to London next month in a scheme being watched worldwide. Our reporter went to the operation’s secret nerve centre to see the technology in operation and find out how it works

AMERICAN vice-presidents and other architects of the war on terror are not the only people who live and work in “secure, undisclosed locations”. There is such a place in London, too. A top-secret, windowless, high-security bunker where a small group of men are plotting what has been described as the biggest upheaval in civilian life in the capital since the Second World War.

I know because I have been inside it. Tucked away on an unmarked floor of an anonymous building, down a side street in a quiet corner of . . . but of course, I can’t tell you that. Then I